“Wherever there is a child,” he told NBC News, “There will be a bicycle – and a smile.”

The reporter who interviewed him asked Jackson to show up at the local Boys and Girls Club for what the man thought was going to be another interview about the theft.

When Jackson walked through the doors, live on TV, he was visibly choked up as he saw hundreds of his neighbors cheering him — and fifty kids waiting to get bicycles that were donated to his charity work.

“Look at the smiles, just look at the smiles,” Jackson said after he sent the kids running to each claim a bike. “It’s about the smiles.”